A little test for native speakers

0 Hi! This is one of the parts from the Russian national exam on English. Some teachers find it difficult and say that even a native speaker'd have problems with it. I can't understand why they think so. Dear native speakers here, if you have a couple of spare minutes, read the text below and answer the questions. Anyone can try even if English isn't his mother tongue. I'll post the keys later.02br
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00Sometimes my father scares me. He can tackle something he knows nothing about, and nine times out of ten, it will come out all right. It’s pure luck, of course, but try convincing him. “Frame of Mind,” he says. “Just believe you can do a thing, and you’ll do it.” “Anything?” I asked. “Some day your luck will run out. Then see what good your Frame of Mind will do,” I said.02br
00 Believe me, I am not just being a smart alec. It so happens that I have actually tried Frame of Mind myself. The first time was the year I went all out to pass the civics final. I had to go all out, on account of I had not cracked a book all year. I really crammed, and all the time I was cramming I was concentrating on Frame of Mind. Just believe you can do a thing – sure. I made the lowest score in the history of Franklin High. “Thirty-three percent,” I said, showing my father the report card. “There’s your Frame of Mind for you.” He put it on the table without looking at it. “You have to reach a certain age and understanding,” he explained. “That’s the key to Frame of Mind.” “Yeah? What does a guy do in the meantime?” “Maybe you should study. Some kids learn a lot that way.” 02br
00 That was my first experience with Frame of Mind. My latest one was for a promotion at the Austin Clothing Store. Jim Watson had a slightly better sales record and was more knowledgeable and skillful. Me, I had Frame of Mind. Jim Watson got the job. Did this convince my father? It did not. To convince him, something had to happen. To him, I mean. Something did happen, too, at the Austin Clothing Store. My father works there, too. What happened was that Mr Austin paid good money for a clever Easter window display. It’s all set up and we’re about to draw the curtain when we discover the display lights won’t work. I can see Mr Austin growing pale. He is thinking of the customers that could go right by his store in the time it will take him to get hold of an electrician. 02br
00This is when my father comes on the scene. “Is something the matter?” he says. “Oh, hello, Louis,” Mr Austin says. He calls my father “Louis.” Me, Joe Conklin – one of his best salesmen – he hardly knows. My father, a stock clerk, he calls “Louis.” Life isn’t always fair. “These darned lights won’t work.” “H’mm, I see,” my father says. “Maybe I can be of service.” From inside his pocket comes a screwdriver. Mr Austin looks at him. “Can you help us, Louis?” “No, he cannot,” I volunteer. “You think he’s Thomas Edison?” I don’t intend to say that. It just slips out. “Young man, I was addressing your father,” Mr Austin says, giving me a cold hard look. My father touches something with his screwdriver and the display lights go on.02br
00What happened next was that the big safe in Mr Austin’s office got jammed shut with all our paychecks in it. From nowhere comes my father. “Is something the matter?” he says. “The safe, Louis,” Mr Austin is saying. “It 02br
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00won’t open, I was going to send for you.” “H’mm, I see,” my father says. “Can you help us, Louis?” Mr Austin inquires. I start to say he cannot, but I stop myself. If my father wants to be a clown, that’s his business. “What is the combination of this safe?” my father says. Mr Austin whispers the combination in my father’s ear. Armed with the combination, he starts twirling the knob. I can’t believe it: grown men and women standing hypnotized, expecting that safe door to open. And while they stand there, the safe door opens.02br
00“Go ahead, say it was luck, my opening the safe today,” my father says. “OK,” I reply. Then I tell him what I saw in the faces of those people in Mr Austin’s office: confidence and trust and respect. “The key to Frame of Mind is you have to use it to give support to those who need it when there’s no one else to save the situation. Otherwise it will not work.”02br
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001) believed that he was the luckiest man in the world.02br
002) was a knowledgeable and highly qualified man.02br
003) succeeded in almost everything he did.02br
004) didn’t mind being called a lucky man.02br
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00In paragraph 2 “I had to go all out” means that the narrator had to02br
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001) take the civics examination one more time.02br
002) take the civics examination in a different school.02br
003) try as hard as he could to prepare for the exam.02br
004) find somebody to help him pass the exam.02br
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00They didn't promote the narrator because he had02br
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001) proved less successful than Jim.02br
002) sold few records.02br
003) no Frame of Mind.02br
004) not reached the promotion age.02br
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00Mr Austin was in despair because02br
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001) the curtain wouldn’t draw open.02br
002) he couldn’t find an electrician.02br
003) the display had cost him a lot of money.02br
004) he was likely to lose some customers.02br
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00When Mr Austin called the narrator’s father “Louis” the young man felt02br
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001) proud of his Dad.02br
002) hopeful of his Dad.02br
003) jealous of his Dad.02br
004) sorry for his Dad.02br
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00The narrator was sure that02br
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001) his Dad would open the safe.02br
002) his Dad knew nothing about safes.02br
003) Mr. Austin wanted to make fun of his Dad.02br
004) Mr. Austin had sent for his Dad to open the safe.02br
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00According to Louis’ words, Frame of Mind worked if one was02br
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001) an expert in many fields.02br
002) ready to help other people.02br
003) a lucky person.02br
004) respectful and trustful.0-